


Driving (but not in control)

by asyndese



Series: Viravos Office!AU [2]
Category: The Dragon Prince (Cartoon)
Genre: Aaravos being a presumptuous little shit, Alternate Universe - Office, Anal Sex, Blow Jobs, Drunk Sex, First Time, M/M, Mildly Dubious Consent, Multiple Orgasms, Pining, Self-Denial, Suits, The slow and inevitable corruption of Viren, Viren in denial, Viren's selective racism, unbeta'd we die like men
Language: English
Status: Completed
Published: 2019-12-01
Updated: 2019-12-01
Packaged: 2021-03-03 12:34:52
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Chapters: 1
Words: 5,022
Publisher: archiveofourown.org
Story URL: https://archiveofourown.org/works/21632179
Author URL: https://archiveofourown.org/users/asyndese/pseuds/asyndese
Summary: He should have had more self-control than that, he was 42, for god's sake, not a teenager. To fall head-first into a hormone-driven office affair without so much as a blink was not only embarrassing, it was downright dangerous. There was nothing romantic nor commendable about mixing professional and private lives, and he had always looked down on people who couldn't keep it together.Then why oh why had it only taken a few drinks and some heated words murmured against the shell of his ear for his resolve to crumble?---Prequel toSorry for the Inconvenience.
Relationships: Aaravos & Viren (The Dragon Prince), Aaravos/Viren (The Dragon Prince)
Series: Viravos Office!AU [2]
Series URL: https://archiveofourown.org/series/1559149
Comments: 31
Kudos: 229





	Driving (but not in control)

**Author's Note:**

> Originally a companion piece to [Sorry for the Inconvenience](https://archiveofourown.org/works/19227760) I was too shy to post before.  
Many thanks to [Val](https://twitter.com/meatgomad/status/1200524053146226688) and [Mira](https://twitter.com/mira_rre/status/1200603949486624773) for reminding me of this glorious AU with their beautiful fanart.

Four months.

Not six, or ten, but a measly _ four. _

That’s how little it took apparently, to turn Viren’s life upside down. But those four months had felt much longer and certainly more _ intense _than even the last four years. Overall, he blamed Harrow for hiring Aaravos in the first place, for setting Viren up like that and voluntelling him to do the elf's onboarding. To share the floor with the prick was bad enough but having to actually help him get settled? Share lunches? Preposterous.

Had there been any way to avoid responsibility, he would have found it. But he had missed his window of opportunity to hand in his request for a long overdue holiday and Harrow had not allowed for any wriggle room in the matter either, looking straight into Viren's eyes like a general ordering his soldiers to march ever onward; heedless of the dangers waiting ahead.

“You are the best man for the job. I trust you with this," he had said so earnestly, his hand heavy on Viren's shoulder. Regardless of his own thoughts on the matter, Viren could not refuse him without betraying his own principles after such heartfelt appeal to his loyalty and he had allowed the words to die a dishonorable death on his tongue. But look where that had got him.

Viren was not exactly proud of the old prejudices that had been instilled in him from an early age; they reached deep as roots and were difficult to deracinate, having been cultivated over generations and the war had not exactly endeared Xadia to Katolis either. But the war was over, had been for decades, and a new normal had settled in, calling all governments to action. There were flyers and essays and long winded talkshows and demonstrations in the streets, heralding the type of change that could make or break a society. It told them that elves may not be human, but that they were _ people_, too. Not that it made much of a difference to anyone with a lick of common sense. Viren sometimes had to wonder about HR's decision to proceed with the hiring process when everyone knew hiring elves was inviting strife and discord among their workers. 

Elves couldn't be trusted. Simple as that.

But as it turned out Aaravos was not anything at all what Viren had expected; tall and with a presence to him that made Viren want to address him with _sir_ during their first meeting. Despite his even measured intonation there was a mischievous streak to him that overthrew Viren's notion of the long fostered image of the haughty, backstabbing elf. Unlike Janai (legal department), Aaravos harbored a deep disregard for the conservative, approaching problems with fresh, ingenious solutions. Nobody seemed to mind that his rogue nature spilled over into his choice of attire, forgoing the required tie and jacket; Preferring purple dress shirts with sleeves pushed up to his elbow. Perhaps, Viren speculated, the stars sparkling on his dark skin were enough of a distraction that people generally didn’t notice (Viren _ had _noticed, of course). 

The onboarding went as well as Viren had expected it to go. That was, absolutely abysmal with the damn elf asking him all manners of very personal questions that Viren had a hard time deflecting. It was nobody’s business how his marriage had come to an end, or how old his children were, where he had gone to university nor what traits he preferred in a partner, thank you very much.

Bad enough that he kept hovering around Viren like burdock sticking to fleece by constantly peeking over his shoulder, white hair brushing Viren’s cheek. He also had the audacity to wrap his star-skinned hand around Viren's repeatedly and used it to move his mouse for him when he tried to introduce him to their CMR software. It did not help matters either when he kept dropping Viren's name in that low tone of his into the middle of a conversation as if wanting to get his attention for the sole purpose of distracting him. Well, he sure managed that, loathe as Viren was to admit it.

As soon as his week of torture came to a close, Viren breathed a sigh of a relief, glad to wash his hands of his elven nuisance. He was more than happy to leave him to his own devices two hallways down. 

At first, Aaravos seemed content enough with the tasks he'd been given and to Viren's chagrin, he had to admit the elf seemed to know what he was doing. He'd successfully closed an ongoing deal with another company in a matter of days, shaking hands with the exces like they'd known each other for years. This went on for quite a while with Aaravos wrapping up all those talks and long-winded negotiations in the blink of an eye. Until such a time came where Aaravos' focus shifted away from all these new, interesting problems at work and towards his colleagues instead, taking a too keen interest in their daily life and personal struggles. He had wrapped half the floor around his little finger in no time, including Opeli. And Opeli didn't even _like_ anyone at the best of times.

No matter.

Viren could see such manipulations a mile away and they were easy enough to avoid by simply staying in his office, tucked safely away from idle chit-chat. That is, until Aaravos suddenly turned that charm on him with a single minded determination that bordered on harassment. Viren suspected the elf's newly awakened fascination with him was caused by a desastrous meeting earlier in the week, one which that had left Viren a stuttering mess upon the intense scrutiny of those golden eyes.

Viren had thought he’d be immune to Mr. Pointy-Ear’s special brand of allure, knew how that particular cat and mouse game went. He had no interest in engaging in such foolishness, least of all with an _ elf _. Or any man, for that matter.

But Aaravos was nothing if not insistent, like a force of nature, squeezing himself into Viren’s life at every turn once he realised there _was_ a way in. He kept asking him to join him for lunch in the canteen, more often than what Viren considered to be appropriate between colleagues. (Viren always declined. That weeklong on-boarding had been enough for him, at least that's what he told himself.) Then Aaravos would ask for his help with minor, ridiculous tasks. (Viren delegated.)

Aaravos tried small talk, or big talk, after meetings, a warm hand to Viren’s elbow stopping him from leaving the room. It was harder to resist that pull when it became physical. As soon as Aaravos had caught onto that weakness he abused it shameless by adding small touches to their daily encounters. An overly familiar hand on his shoulder, a brush of fingers, squeezing past him in the mail room despite there being enough space between the shelves. If there was an opportunity to get Vire alone and half-corner him against a wall, the prick took it. 

When Viren had slipped on the ladder in the archive, Aaravos had been there as if by some miracle, holding him by the waist and smirking at Viren's red face before setting him down with an ease befit for a strongman. Like Viren weighed nothing.

That show of physical strength always left Viren flustered and annoyed and he tried to put as much physical distance between them as he could, preferring to stand at the opposite corner of any room the elf was in, ignoring the way his stomach fluttered whenever he heard the dark timber of his voice rumbling down the hallway. Only under absolute duress would Viren admit that he enjoyed the elf’s presence and clever mind. 

As it stood, he despised him and his smug attitude and would not hesitate to declare such if anyone should ask (but nobody asked him). 

His obvious hostility did not deter Aaravos, far too amused by it all. He simply found different ways to shake Viren’s iron control. 

He started calling him on his phone more often, the low baritone drawing Viren in with the same way a flame did a moth, pure temptation right in his ear and dripping with innuendos - to the point that heat and arousal started to creep up his spine, settling heavy on his tongue.

Maybe Aaravos could hear it in his terse answers, breathless as they were. Viren never stayed on the line long enough to find out, hanging up without so much as a goodbye, ignoring all subsequent calls for the next hour.

Viren nearly snapped when Aaravos used the crowded elevator to his advantage one day to press himself against Viren’s back with his breath ruffling the hair at his nape in a distracting manner. 

His “good morning” was a deep, husky greeting and Viren clutched the handle of the elevator tight enough for his knuckles to turn white, hoping, _ praying _the fourth floor would come up soon.

He’d felt the aftershocks tingling along his neck for days, replaying the encounter in his mind over and over again.

It had only conjured up too many unwanted fantasies; brought them to the front of his mind in startling clarity. With them came the shame of knowing he had brought himself to climax in the dark privacy of his bedroom on more than one occasion, while thinking of the elf's long fingers in his mouth, around his cock, calling Viren's name. He did not know what Aaravos looked underneath that half open shirt and those tight dress pants, but he could imagine - oh, how he imagined, ruining his concentration for the rest of the day if he allowed himself to indulge in such indecent thoughts. But surely, the elf couldn’t know _that_ and he never ever must know either. 

At some point, Aaravos asked Viren to join him for a drink after work when the clock's hand had krept towards 10 pm as they wrapped up one of many projects. Feeling his face grow hot from such a blatant offer, Viren excused himself by citing a headache and the need for sleep - just like his ex-wife when their marriage had started to fray at the edges, unravelling quickly into divorce. He, too, had to guard his thoughts now.

Something needed to give, eventually, Viren knew that much. Aaravos would be a fool to keep dancing around him and Viren was absolutely certain the elf would move on to easier targets soon. He couldn’t be that entertaining to keep Aaravos amused between assignments and he was not that much to look at, not really. 

He was still fit, sure, and he took pride in the fact that he did not unnecessarily indulge like others his age, preferring to jog through the park during the early morning hours. _ But still_. 

He was also incorrigibly human and a star-touched such as Aaravos himself had surely seen more beauty than there were stars on his celestial body and probably bedded twice as many. Viren might have been many things, stubborn and proud and at times too intense, as his family could attest (and god forbid, Harrow as well), but he was not vain. Never that.

Aaravos thankfully elected to respect Viren’s personal space after he’d rightened Viren’s glasses and Viren had slapped his hand away, face flushed and probably too open. He usually never lost his temper like that, but by god, the elf was truly testing him.

After rejecting his offer to go out for drinks for the n-th time, he stopped coming into Viren’s office to give unsolicited advice. Good. It was easier that way, and anyways, Viren wasn't gay, not really, even if Aaravos' touches had sent jolts through him, his voice sparking goosebumps when he was standing too close, close enough for Viren to smell the expensive cologne on his neck.

There was nothing the elf offered that Viren wanted and rightfully shouldn’t. He very much liked his job and its benefits and he was beyond an age where hormones were a dictating force in his life. It'd be nice if things could remain the way they were.

Naturally, they didn't.

Change came in the form of a company wide e-mail inviting all employees to their yearly winter celebration.

Naively, Viren accepted.

Wintersolstice was quite infamous at their branch, forging and breaking bonds left and right. But as with any other work event, people soon forgot about all the little winter dramas by next month... most of them, anyway. Viren had only ever been a slightly bemused spectator, knowing he'd never partake in such risky endeavours as a ONS with a colleague. The thrill, as he could gather, never compensated for the messy fall-out after.

But karma was, as Soren liked to put it, an absolute _ cunt _ and Viren couldn't have been more wrong about that whole elf-issue, having been lulled into a false sense of security once the daily, unprompted visits and phone calls had let up. In retrospect it was probably a long-con from the get-go, and Aaravos had merely waited for Viren to drop his guard.  
  
Which he did, like an absolute beginner and all it took was a few drinks and heated words murmured against the shell of his ear. He should have listened to his intuition, a bad feeling like a presentiment deep in his guts that told him to stay at work rather than join the company party.

But Harrow wouldn't hear of it, waiting by the door to his office, not so subtly glancing at his watch every two minutes until Viren had shut off his pc and put on his overcoat.

Aaravos was there as well, _ of course _, wouldn’t have missed it for the world to mingle and pry secrets lose from inebriated tongues and easily charmed chairmen. Viren had no doubt with his skills, Aaravos could relieve Harrow as CEO already next year if Harrow didn't stay on his toes to foster the much needed interpersonal relations among the members of the executive committee. It wasn’t the first time that Viren thought they’d invited a snake into their midst.

And a very seductive snake at that, one who was leaning complacently against the long bar, a whisky glass held in one nimble hand while scanning the rented premise with keen eyes. Shirt unbuttoned enough to display his collarbone, _naturally_, with half of the star mark on his chest glowing mysteriously - a will-o'-the-wisp luring men to their doom. 

Viren deliberately ignored Harrow's pointed looks when he got caught staring where he shouldn't and busied himself with arranging his coat onto the chair with more attention than it warranted before he tried to catch the waiter's eye. But of course he drew the attention of golden ones from the bar instead, trapping him for a few seconds with their devouring intensity before he regained enough of his composure to return Aaravos' blatant invitation with a glare.

After that, their all too familiar dance of hide and seek kept him distracted all night, his own fear and pride forcing him to twist away whenever he saw Aaravos stalking closer to him, to join the group Viren was currently chatting with. 

He thought he’d successfully evaded him once the buffett was opened, the crowd of people blocking even the slightest lick of night sky skin. He had breathed a sigh of relief when even dessert did not conjure the tip of magenta horns; perhaps Aaravos had given up. 

Of course he should have known that Aaravos was just as stubborn as he was. Maybe more so, weaving his own narrative of events, biding his time until Viren was deep into the fifth drink Harrow had forced on him (Gin and tonic this time.) 

Just when he'd downed the last of it, Aaravos appeared in front of him like a cosmic vision of white hair and golden cufflinks, leaning in enough for his body heat to wash over Viren; one arm on the back of Viren’s seat like he owned the place, like he owned _ Viren _ and Viren couldn’t find it in himself to argue against that notion. Not when that low voice turned almost corporeal, lips brushing against the shell of Viren's ear to murmur inconsequential things shared in confidence. Teasing, beckoning him to move further into the private circle of Aaravos' arms that trapped him between the stool and the sleek oaken bar. The only way out was by pressing against a broad chest and expensive linen.  
  
And Viren was not ready for such intimate contact. Not yet, anyway, though he felt it in his very _ core, _ something uncoiling and thrumming with excitement at the prospect of doing just that. 

He had allowed for that drunk conversation to go on longer than it would have under normal circumstances. It was surprisingly stimulating in its depth. Perhaps the two whiskey sours Aaravos had ordered for him had something to do with it, laying the pavement for a series of bad judgement calls until he found himself crowded back against the grubby tiled wall in the restaurant's bathroom with Aaravos’ hot tongue licking into his mouth. 

His kiss tasted too much of the dirty fantasies Viren couldn't stop entertaining during lonely evenings, and he didn’t slap the nimble fingers away when they started to loosen his tie. Didn’t protest at all either when Aaravos opened the buttons on his collar so that his sinful mouth could get to the flushed skin of his throat beneath. 

Viren blamed the alcohol in his blood that he reciprocated with moaned pleas and willingly spread thighs for Aaravos to step between, that he had allowed this... thing between them to come into full bloom. Allowed Aaravos to cup hin through the thin material of his dress pants.

He simply wasn’t in the right frame of mind, a little desperate and still raw from his recent divorce, starved for contact and the only reason why he nodded his acquiescence when Aaravos purred into his ear.

"Come home with me."

"_Alright, yeah, okay_," he slurred, dizzy with the weight of Aaravos large hand splayed against his lower back guiding him out of the place and into the night. He’d excellently played him and Viren had fallen right into his honey trap.

He had no recollection of how he'd ended up in Aaravos' apartment, the memory of wet kisses on the backseat of a Taxi hazy at best. There had been a stumble through a dark hallway, a knocked over chair and ripped clothes. Rough, four fingered hands running through his hair and over his shoulders and then inside his dress pants to grab his ass. A dimly lit bedroom and after that… _ ah_, _ after that _a large bed and rich cotton sheets where Viren found himself bent over Aaravos in reverse, gagging on cock while the elf's tongue lapped up his taint and into his ass. 

The elf tasted like heat and sin, his length salty and dripping and he couldn’t stop moaning around it as it tapped the back of his throat. It felt as perverted as he thought it would, wrong yet very right at the same time, so heavy on his tongue. He’d been close to coming just from this, from the wet, eager kisses Aaravos pressed into the skin behind his balls, tongue pushing up and _ inside _like a spear of heat. 

He was not too keen on anal play, even less so when he was on the receiving end and especially for a ONS, but Aaravos seemed to make Viren give up a lot of firsts.

Perhaps it was some residue elven magic from the olden times that eased the way, or just the alcohol because the tight muscles of his opening gave way to slick fingers too easily, sliding in so perfectly as if they had done this before, leaving Viren flushed and tingling all over as Aaravos prepared him for something better, _ bigger_. Working up from one to three thick digits in no time and Viren hadn't known he could feel this loose and wanton down there, each stroke sending a wave of throbbing desire directly from his ass to his cock.

He didn’t fight it when Aaravos pushed him face down in the bed and made him take his length inch after stiff inch, grinding into him in slow increments, his cock as velvety smooth as it was insistent. 

The pressure was overwhelming, bordering on painful and Viren clenched his jaw shut to keep the noises from spilling out. He feared the size would rip him apart, the sensation so all consuming he could feel his blood pounding against his temples. _ Gods _, but he wanted it in that moment, enough that he could taste it. His shoulders were straining from how hard he fisted the sheets. His own desire was hanging heavy between his legs, seemingly unaffected by the struggle to take it all in and steadily dripping precum onto the sheets.

He'd never thought he'd end up stuffed with cock, least of all from his elven colleague but here he was all the same, thighs open and asking for it as Aaravos pulled back until only the tip remained. It was a weird sensation, muscles fluttering and clenching desperatly to close up while large hands spread his cheeks further apart. Weirder still to have another man shift behind him for that perfect angle before the elf slid in again so slow he could acutely feel the slick glide of every single inch.

The sensation was so overpowering, Viren almost fainted from the force of his own climax slamming into him unexpectedly, toes curling, scarlett face buried in the sheets to muffle his voice. Aaravos merely chuckled as if he had expected as much but he didn't stop there. 

The pace he set was persistent, deep; even measured thrusts that had left Viren gasping for air from overstimulation, from the sheer _pressure_ inside, fucking him right through his orgasm. 

“I can’t,” was the first thing out of Viren’s mouth when he slowly came down from his high but Aaravos just shook his head, “Yes, you can. Let me show you,” arrogant even in this.  
  
It was too much too soon but it got easier with time, smoother as the tension eased from his body. It satisfied a visceral need he had not known was there in the first place and he started to move back into the motion once he'd caught on to the rhythm of it all, gingerly at first, taking it with his head hung low between his shoulders. Just trying to breathe through it.

The sound of the elf's hips slapping against the meat of Viren's ass was deafening in the dark bedroom, Viren's red-faced mantra of _Oh fuck _filling the gaps left open by his raspy moans. Aaravos didn't hold back any longer, one hand at the back of Viren's neck, pulling at the hair there and knowing he could take it. 

_ Fucking bastard was right_, he thought bitterly when he came again just from elf's heavy length inside of him, less surprised than the first time by the intensity of it but no less overwhelmed. 

Perhaps it would not have been so bad if Aaravos had just _ shut up _ , stopped asking him all these probing, humiliating questions of _ whether it was his first time, if he liked cock, if he wanted it_\-- _wanted an elf to fuck him, _ making him beg for it and revealing far too much of his own depraved fantasies when the too shallow pounding compelled him to answer (his answer was always _ yes _).

They said that elves could do it longer and more often, Viren had always scoffed at such gossip. Perhaps there was something to it after all, for Aaravos broke into a healthy flush only towards the end, sweat dripping down his brow once Viren’s moans had already turned into hoarse gasps. He was lying on his back like a fish on land; too weak and trembling from his last orgasm with his legs pushed up, bent over his stomach by sure hands against the back of his thighs. Unable to do anything but take it. 

The first unbidden noise Aaravos had made all night was a growl before he pulled out of Viren and fisted himself to completion with a single minded determination bordering on desperation. Viren couldn’t do more than watch in overwhelmed amazement as the elf spilled hot ropes of come over him, covering his stomach and chest. Some of it even landed on his face like salty rain drops.

Viren cursed, that languid tingle of lust sizzling up even to his scalp at the sight and ruining him for anything else. 

He'd never seen something so immodest and in his orgasmic haze he wasn't too embarrassed to admit how much he wanted to see it again. And again. _ And again_, moaning for it when Aaravos cradled his face and licked the cum off his cheek and jaw. Opened his mouth wide to taste it on Aaravos' tongue in a kiss that might have started out tender, soothing, but was neither of those things. Viren didn't need it to be.

The elf's continued vigor pressing hard against his hip was a call to action Viren wished he could answer with the same enthusiasm but he felt too fucked out, could barely move a hand to wipe the rest of the cum off his stomach with a corner of the sheets. There was no way in hell he'd be able to go again. 

But Aaravos was nothing if not a resilient prick with an inconceivable refractory period befit a man in his early twenties, and Viren couldn't recall how often Aaravos had taken his pleasure after that, the night turning into an aching, bruised blur of demanding touches, burning away any protest that had weighed heavy on his guilt-ridden conscious.

Did not help that Aaravos kissed him so longingly in between, bracketing his head and shoulders with his arms, keeping him right where he wanted him, speaking to Viren in a language he could only guess at. Maybe Viren wasn't the only one losing his head over this. Flattering, really.

When the loud chatter of magpies outside started to exacerbate the thrumming between his temples, Viren snuck out from under Aaravos’ heavy arm draped over his chest. On his way, he picked up his rumpled clothes from the floor, recounting the steps that had led him into the elf’s bed and taking in his surroundings for the first time. 

Aaravos' apartment appeared as a single, sleek surface with LEDs highlighting his expensive taste like perfunctory escape routes. Open kitchen, granite floor tiles. Glass fronts. Inked trees in a frame on the wall. Clear structured, single-colored furniture, a spacious bathroom and the square light of the illuminated bathroom mirror reflected in Viren's bloodshot eyes.

He looked like a wreck. A well-fucked, exhausted, hungover wreck. _ Couldn't just have been the drinks_, he figured. Men his age didn't get to come more than once, usually. Didn't have the stamina. Two rounds, _ maybe,_ with the right partner. Three was a bit of a stretch. Aaravos had made him come five times, the last two dry, his cock merely drooling until he had felt giddy from hyperventilation as much as from overstimulation.

Aaravos must have drugged him, made him delirious and insatiable with some form of aphrodisiac, slipped it into his mouth after Viren blew him for the first time. Somehow. There was no other explanation except the obvious. Had he been truly that desperate?

He left before dawn broke, the icy weather clearing his head as his glasses fogged up from his own breath. There was a deep ache in his bones, in his ass, a different type of soreness he'd not experienced before. It left his face burning hot the whole way back home. 

He thought about calling in when he finally arrived to shower and put on newly ironed shirt and slacks, putting up a presentable front, no hair out of place. He was no quitter and even if facing that smug bastard at work was going to be an awkward inconvenience, their little tryst didn't _ mean _anything. 

A fuck among colleagues, nothing more, intense as it may have been. It tended to happen during this time of year, after all. It would not be the first time someone got frisky from the alcohol. And now it had happened to him. 

Should gossip spread, nobody at work would bat an eye about it, Viren was certain. Had to be.

Claudia interrupted her hurried breakfast to help him choose a tie when she saw him fumble with it through the open bedroom door, half-distracted by his own thoughts. She even did it up for him. Once she was done, she brushed away the toast crumbs on his shirt with an apologetic grin and a twinkle in her eye as if she _ knew _and Viren's throat constrict with sudden panic. 

Belatedly, he touched the side of his neck, felt the heat of swollen bruises against his palm - too high for the collar to provide him with deniable coverage.

When Claudia pointed out with a delighted laugh that there was one even on the inside of his wrist, Viren fought the urge to get the vodka Soren kept in the freezer. Groaning, he ushered her out of his room and then sat on his bed for what felt like an eternity, staring at the coarse thread of the carpet to his feet with unseeing eyes. 

In the end, he did not go to work that day. Eventually he would have to, of course, he could not avoid Aaravos forever. He had to face reality sooner than later. But surely, postponing their meeting at work for one day wouldn't hurt, he'd see the pointy-eared bastard soon enough. No need to rush it out of some misplaced sense of pride.

Tomorrow was good enough, though once he did find his courage after a restless night of little sleep,_ ah _, that’s when the real elven trouble started.


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